Don't forget to order your supplies for this year's International BookCrossing Day (April 21)! The last day to order them is March 25, because we'll need time to get them to you before the big day arrives. And this year's labels were designed by Azuki and they're great. So don't miss out, get your orders in while you can!

I've left several books at this post office, apart from the ones I've, posted but with no luck, so far, with catches. Here's hoping that this will be the exception to celebrate bookcrossing day. I did mention them to a member of staff once and she said that she'd seen them around and assured me that they wouldn't be thrown out but may be taken to a charity shop if they sat there for a long time. It's a very busy "main" PO so I expect they are being picked up.EDITED 5.5.2017- to sayYESSS-it did get caught! Have another look at the link....

I left a book called "Waiting" under an arch where everyone waits for friends & family when they are out shopping!I also spent some time looking round second hand book shops and bought about a dozen books to register and wild release. That includes a book I have been after for sometime which I would like to start as a bookring. :)

I also spent some time looking round second hand book shops and bought about a dozen books to register and wild release. That includes a book I have been after for sometime which I would like to start as a bookring. :)

I am in the midst of all I have planned in celebration of International BookCrossing Day today and will be back later to post the details. I thought I'd share this link from the Release Challenges Forum with everyone, as there are some great ideas that have been posted by a few other BCers there, as well!!! ; ) HAVE A FUN DAY!!! : D https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/540816

I did some driving today, to leave books in several different towns (and a couple of states).

Today turned out to be rather raw and very rainy, so it wasn't the most friendly outdoor-releasing weather. On the other hand, it meant that I could usually find parking, as so few other people were out and about today {wry grin}. I left books near a newspaper office, a TV station, a brew-pub, and assorted scenic spots; also left a few books in Little Free Libraries. Due to the weather they were all in plastic bags, save for the LFL releases and one or two that I was able to leave indoors - but I did make use of the bags to hang a few from trees!

All releases wild, all with photos, roughly in coolest-photo-first order:

2. Reaper Man ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14508016/ ), left near a historical burying ground in Portsmouth NH. (It's one of my favorite Discworld books, and I only started reading that series thanks to comments in the BC forums. I figured I just *had* to include Discworld book in today's releases.) [UPDATE: caught!]

3. Gaudy Night ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14490870/ ), left near a statue commemorating the young women who worked in the mills in the 19th century. The "Lord Peter" books are among my favorites, so I wanted to include one of those in today's releases.

4. The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/4186275/ ), one of my earliest registered books, long a "PC"-status keeper-copy; in honor of the day, I decided to release it, and took the opportunity to leave it near a fascinating sculpture that I've often driven past but never used as a release site before.

5. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14437410/ ) - I left this one in a Portsmouth brew-pub, as part of the book deals with home brewing. And I love brew-pubs!

6. Just an Ordinary Day ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14441089/ ) is a collection of Shirley Jackson stories, some hilarious, some disturbing. I adore her work, and wanted to include her in my releases today.

11. Anatomy of a Rose ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10516959/ ), which came from the Biographies of Things bookbox - in memory of BCer MaryZee, who started it years ago. I wanted to include a book-from-other-BCers in today's releases. [UPDATE: Another catch!]

12. Wildly into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14441113/ ) - this one's a book of poetry, another genre I thought it'd be fun to account for.

13. Wild Inferno ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14441110/ ) is an example of a book that I picked up purely because it qualified for a release challenge (the "In the Wild" one), and found to be much more interesting than I'd expected.

International BookCrossing Day is done. Wilderwoman and I released 182 books in 15 locations* in 6 cities. Got done about midnight. We were gone for 8 hours and ate out 3 times. We were pooped. But we had fun!

Links to the release sites to be added when the site is working properly again. Right now it is too slow to do *any* release notes.

* ETA: the 15 locations included 2 OBCZs and 4 LFLs if I counted right.

** ETA: looks like I counted the releases wrong, I think it's 181 releases for the two of us, not 182.

International BookCrossing Day is done. Wilderwoman and I released 182 books in 15 locations in 6 cities. Got done about midnight. We were gone for 8 hours and ate out 3 times. We were pooped. But we had fun!

At a meeting for camper travel consultants.The first day , one book was taken.On the end of the second day, before going home, there was this woman looking through them.Tja, she said, I like to take some but I'm doing this myself, and I have so many books to get rid of.Hesitant and lingerend. Mr C cut to the chase and said: Why don't you take the whole basket and bring it back with the books you want to go.So we exchangend and that is how I met fellow Bookcrosser omaleest from Begium and this made my BookCrossing day international :-)

...I also made a Supply Store Purchase and Donation to support the site,Gifted WINGS to another BCer,Started a Bookring,Sent several RABCKs off to fellow BCers,Made several Controlled Releases,Registered 21 books...AND...because I am not able to attend the BookCrossing Convention in Oslo, I made an Oslo inspired WILD release in support. You can read about it here... https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/541285?...